100% Security Compliance — Defence-Sector Client
Achieved 100% compliance on a multi-region security conformance programme for a client requiring qualification for defence and financial sector contracts.
compliance across all security controls across two AWS regions
The Challenge
A technology company operating in Australia's financial and defence sectors needed to qualify for contracts under DISP (Defence Industry Security Programme) requirements. This required achieving 100% compliance on a rigorous security conformance framework across multiple AWS regions simultaneously.
Our Approach
We deployed a comprehensive multi-region security programme across AWS Sydney and London regions. This included the full AWS Config conformance pack mapped to applicable security controls, CloudTrail across all regions, AWS Security Hub and GuardDuty for threat detection, Systems Manager Patch Manager for automated patching, MFA enforcement across all IAM accounts, SSH and sensitive port restriction via IP allowlisting, EBS encryption with customer-managed KMS keys, and immutable backup infrastructure in an isolated AWS account using S3 Object Lock. Every control — both applicable and non-applicable — received written justification documentation for the DISP audit.
The Outcome
100% compliance achieved across all security controls. The client successfully qualified for defence and financial sector contracts under DISP requirements. The programme established a repeatable security foundation now being extended to Australian Privacy Principles (APP) compliance.
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